The newest spherical within the battle to stay within the WorldTour in 2026 swung in favour of the Norwegian workforce Uno-X Mobility over the previous two weeks. The workforce climbed forward of Arkéa-B&B Hotels within the 2023-2025 UCI Team Rankings thanks largely to Søren Wærenskjold’s victory in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.
Uno-X Mobility are actually nineteenth within the standings that decide which 18 groups shall be within the sport’s prime tier after the present promotion/relegation cycle. They are 2,670.58 factors behind 18-placed Cofidis and now 118.67 forward of Arkéa-B&B Hotels, having worn out a 456-point drawback initially of the yr.
The momentum that XDS Astana had within the first weeks of the season, which noticed them rocket to second within the 2025 Team Rankings levelled off over the previous week because the workforce missed out on a end in Strade Bianche because of the crash of Christian Scaroni.
Still, XDS Astana have collected a mean of 445 factors per week since mid-January towards wiping out their 4,720-point deficit to Cofidis. The French workforce, by comparability, have solely averaged 182 factors per week.
Cofidis’ maintain on 18th place might but maintain as Uno-X Mobility, Arkéa-B&B Hotels and Astana nonetheless have between 2,670 and a pair of,884 factors to make up on them.
Arkéa-B&B Hotels have gained a single race – the Étoile de Bessèges and two phases because of Kévin Vauquelin – however have lagged behind their WorldTour rivals in factors gained per week. They’ve earned solely 122 per week on common with the week of Bessèges their greatest.
The Picnic-PostNl workforce usually are not protected in seventeenth place, both. The workforce began the season with simply 421 factors greater than Cofidis, and have since seen 200 of that margin worn out as they’ve averaged solely 154 factors per week.
At the groups’ present charges of level gathering, by the top of April, Picnic-PostNl may very well be only a few factors forward of Cofidis, whereas XDS Astana are more likely to transfer again forward of Uno-X Mobility however not fairly shut the hole to Cofidis.
All of those calculations shall be moot when it comes time for the Grand Tours. Those occasions are so profitable by way of factors that it is nearly obligatory to compete in them to earn sufficient to make the WorldTour standards.
It’s why some groups are lobbying for an additional wildcard entry for the GrandTours, and a few are opposed to creating a 23-team peloton.
